Mrs. McCarter founded the Club Member
and organized the Sorosis, serving as president
seven years and two terms as president of the
Topeka Federation of Women's Clubs. Baker
University, at Baldwin, Kansas, gave her an
honorary Master's Degree in 1909, its semi-
centennial anniversary.



BESSIE MAY BELLMAN.
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JUNE BELLMAN HENTHORNE.


Bessie May Bellman and June Bellman
Henthorne, her daughter, hail from Winfield.
They write both prose and verse and Mrs.
Henthorne was a reporter for years. Mrs.
Bellman, when a girl, lived five years on a
cattle ranch and to those five lonely years she
credits her habit of introspection, meditation
and writing. Much of her poetry and short
stories are used in platform work.

Red Leaves.

Red leaves--
Aflame in the air, aflame in the trees.
Blue streams, smoky hills--